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Having trouble viewing this email? View it in your browser . 3 february 2011 Articles The main stories posted this week on The Art Newspaper website Video New programmes from The Art Newspaper TV Exhibitions Shows opening from What's On Offers Special promotions from The Art Newspaper Jobs This week's featured vacancy in print In print only: The mystery of the Vasari archive sale Partygoers damage public sculptures Romania represented by two projects in Venice "Qatar is capable of taking on itself the role of backing Arab art" Spanish royal seal of approval for Dalí's Florida home Xin Li jumps ship from Sotheby's to Christie's The notion of art as an investment vehicle is reviving, but now the focus is on liquidity Government begins flooding ancient spa town Click for full list of articles in the current issue subscribe The Art Newspaper is available in print and online versions. Subscribe now. unsubscribe You received this email from The Art Newspaper because you are on the Thursday newsletter list. Unsubscribe to permanently remove yourself from this list   leAD The war we want to forget WASHINGTON, DC. 150 years ago this month, seven Southern states seceded from the Union, igniting the American Civil War. A defining event in US history, it lasted four years, claimed nearly a million lives, and led to the abolition of slavery. Yet despite its impact even today, there is no major art exhibition planned in the US in 2011. READ MORE articles Dickinson to sue Luxembourg Fallout from Leonardo case sees London dealers locked in legal dispute Google teams with international museums to zoom in on art Using its Street View technology, the internet giant will allow people to virtually visit galleries and view works at gigapixel resolution Details of looting of Cairo and other Egyptian museums Jewellery the main target in the Egyptian Museum, but mummies also damaged No Venice-style mega-ads on the Colosseum during its sponsored conservation A campaign against similar ads in Venice led Italian culture minister Sandro Bondi to concede to limit such commercial billboards on historic buildings Technical problems plague VIP art fair Dealers complain about not being able to log in and issues with chat functions Scholars divided over Leonardo attribution Where did the drawing come from—and is it the real thing? Ashmolean Museum seeks grant to acquire Degas before auction If the National Heritage Memorial Fund decides on Monday to award funding, Two Dancers in Yellow will likely be withdrawn from Christie's sale in February Sotheby's leads Old Master sales with $78.6m Upbeat auction on Thursday was in stark contrast to Christie's lacklustre sale the day before all articles video Franco's Sexual Oppression Baloise Prize winner Simon Fujiwara's piece Welcome to the Hotel Munber (2010) which showed in Art Statements at Art Basel, set the stage of the life of his parents during the Franco Era in Spain. With a backdrop of sexual oppression enforced by the dictator, Fujiwara creates an environment which is one minute comforting and the next, disturbing. Interview by Jean Wainwright. Seductive Sculptures - Maria Nepomuceno Victoria Miro artist Maria Nepomuceno attracted attention at Art Statements in Basel this year with her hand made, woven-beaded scultpure Hammock Net. Combining organic shapes with vivid colour Nepomuceno toys with space and structure, form and concept. Interview by Jean Wainwright. more videos exhibitions The Changing Face of William Shakespeare On Shakespeare's birthday, 23 April 2009, the chairman of the Shakespeare Birthplace Trust and Shakespeare scholar, Stanley Wells, with Mark Broch, the curator of the Cobbe Collection, and Paul Edmondson, the head of education of the trust, revealed what they claimed was a true and contemporary likeness of the Bard.   jobs Yousef Jameel Curator of Islamic: Art Full time Ashmolean Museum, University of Oxford all jobs ©The Art Newspaper, 70 South Lambeth Rd, London SW8 1RL +44 20 7735 3331 www.theartnewspaper.com